Logical isolation. Quick provisioning. High network performance.

IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers for VPC offer fast-provisioning compute capacity—also known as virtual machines—with the highest network speeds and most secure, software-defined networking resources available on the IBM Cloud. Built on IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and featuring powerful, 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors with new Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX®) to help protect data in use via unique application isolation technology. This developer-friendly infrastructure helps drive modern workloads faster and easier with pre-set instance profiles, rapid deployment and private network control in an agile public cloud environment. Choose multi-tenant or dedicated, add GPUs, and pay-as-you-use by the hour or reserve your capacity in advance for reduced costs.

Now available: Confidential computing with Intel® SGX® Help increase application security and protect selected code and data from modification with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX®)  on hyper-scalable virtual servers inside IBM Cloud VPC. By protecting selected code and data from modification, you can partition your applications into hardened enclaves or trusted execution modules to help increase application security. All Intel® SGX®  confidential computing on IBM Cloud runs on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors, the newest generation of HPC microarchitecture with built-in Intel® Accelerator Engines, improved power efficiency, DDR5 memory and PCIe 5 support.

Deployment options

• **Public, multi-tenant deployment: **Choose from 6 families of profiles: Balanced, Compute, Memory, Very High Memory, Ultra High Memory and GPU. Each family profile delivers unique, pre-set virtual server sizes to choose from, with varying capabilities for your workload requirements. Choose monthly pay-as-you-use billing, or reserve your capacity in advance for reduced costs. 
• **Dedicated, single-tenant deployment: **Carve out single-tenant compute capacity with dedicated host nodes and groups on IBM Cloud VPC within the console, CLI or API. Only users within your account with required permissions can create virtual servers instances on the host.

How it's used

• **Three-tier web applications: **Build precisely for high-traffic and dense caching server requirements. Distribute globally in public or dedicated scenarios with various load-balancing options.
• **Self-contained microservices: **Application scale and availability is essential. Build and dynamically add or remove virtual server instance groups with auto-scale templates and server pool control.
• **SAP HANA workloads: **High Memory profiles with 4th Gen Intel Xeon deliver cost effective, high-performance, fully certified virtual servers for SAP HANA.
• **Accelerate AI workloads: **Use GPUs on IBM Cloud to accelerate and securely scale generative AI and traditional AI workloads.
• **Confidential computing: **Help protect your data and AI applications through hardware-based server security and Intel® SGX® with isolated memory. Your sensitive data is encrypted while it’s in-use by allowing applications to run in private memory space.